Vasundhara Raje-government appointed Rajiv Mehrishi as the chief secretary of the state and Subhash Chandra Garg as the principal secretary, finance in December 2013 after formation of New government in Rajasthan. The 1978-batch IAS officer would replace the current incumbent C S Rajan who was holding the additional charge after C K Mathew was transferred as chairman of the transport department. The new chief secretary is an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Mehrishi completed an MA in history before getting into IAS. Later, he went to UK and did an MBA course from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.In IAS, he began his career as a Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) in Ajmer and then joined as additional collector in Jodhpur. In 1984-85, he became the collector of Bikaner. In 1988, he joined the secretariat of the President of India as a deputy secretary. He also served as a director in the petroleum ministry and joint secretary in the cabinet secretariat.

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Sarkar Aapke Dwar is one of Rajasthan government's campaign-inspecting the facilities there, listing out the grievances in the area and also taking actions against officials who were found to be negligent. This scheme was started by Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje from Bikaner region of state.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said the 'sarkar aapke dwar' (government at your doorstep) programme was a unique initiative by her government to win the trust of the people. As part of the programme, public hearings and cabinet meetings are held at the divisional level to address people's grievances and take up development issues of the region. The Chief Minister said historical steps were being taken by her government to reach out to the last person standing in the periphery who had been denied access to the administration since independence.

Noted
Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh has been chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith
award for 2013. Kedarnath Singh is the 10th Hindi writer to receive the
honour and joins the likes of Sumitra Nandan Pant, Ramdhari Singh
Dinkar among others. He will be the recipient of the 49th Jnanpith
award. Singh, 80, who has also written essays and stories, was born in
Balia, UP. Abhi bilkul abhi and Yahan se dekho are among his prominent works. The award includes Rs 11 lakh and a citation, a release from the Jnanpith award committee said.

About Jnanpith Award:
The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya
Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary
honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian
citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible
for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust
founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the newspaper The
Times of India. As of 2014 most Jananpith award winners, ten have been
writing in Hindi followed by eight in Kannada, five each in Bengali and
Malayalam, four each in Oriya and Urdu and three each in Gujarati,
Marathi and Telugu and two each in Assamese and Tamil. Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup was first person to win Jnanpith award in 1965.

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Kathak Dance is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dance. The name Kathak is derived from the Sanskrit word katha meaning story,
and katthaka in Sanskrit means he who tells a story, or to do with
stories. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathakars or storytellers. Its form today contains traces of temple and ritual dances, and the influence of the bhakti movement. There are three major schools or gharana of Kathak from which performers today generally draw their lineage: the gharanas of Jaipur, Lucknow and Varanasi (born in the courts of the Kachwaha Rajput kings, the Nawab of Oudh, and Varanasi respectively); there is also a less prominent (and later) Raigarh gharana which amalgamated technique from all three preceding gharanas but became famous for its own distinctive compositions.

Kathak Dance is famous and brilliant dance form in Rajasthan India. Kathak Dance Dancers dress traditional colourful dresses during Dance. The background classical music play with tabla, sarangi, and sitar etc. Kathak Dance is a very attractive dance of rajasthan. This dance form is basically dedicated and performed for the Hindu Gods and earlier used to be performed only in temples and then slowly moved its base to the courts of the rulers like the Nawabs and the Maharajas of the Hindu mythology. This was considered as a royal and lavish entertainment for these nawabs and maharajas. This dance form grew and flourished in the Jaipuir Gharana in Rajasthan which was only pure dancing and focused more on the expressions and the technicalities of the dance form.

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Ans: Rajsamnad and BharatpurQ.2 Teen (3) Bigha corridor is between which country ?Ans: India and Bagladesh Hint: The
Tin [or Teen] Bigha Corridor is a strip of land belonging to India on
the West Bengal–Bangladesh border, which in September, 2011, was leased
to Bangladesh so that it can access its Dahagram–Angarpota enclaves.